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The history of technology and technology throughout history; human innovation from the first stone tool to the iPhone and beyond.
History of Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has developed its own cloud computing platform that allows people to use computing resources over the internet and pay for them the same way people pay for utilities. The history of this particular platform begins all the way back to the year 2005. In that year, Microsoft took over Grove Networks. For those who were not around back in the mid-2000s or those who were around but just did not care about tech giants back then, Groove Networks was a software company based in Beverly, Massachusetts that mostly focused on creating productivity software to allow multiple users to work on computer files at the same time. It was bought by Microsoft for $120 million US Dollars and Bill Gates, the CEO of Microsoft at the time, made the founder of Grooves one of the 3 chief technology officers of Microsoft to help with the company's attempts at innovation. This CTO, Ray Ozzie, began to spend approximately three years working on a project for a cloud operating system with other developers at Microsoft before announcing their new platform on October 2008 . This platform was called the Windows Azure Platform and it was announced to a massive crowed at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, California.
By Tyler McFadden3 years ago in 01
Intro To Cloud Computing History
Cloud computing is pretty much all over the news and being mentioned by practically every business that has to work with networking & computing. However, most people have no clue what cloud computing is or why it is treated as so important to various industries. Well, there is a very short definition that is provided by technical writer Wesley Chai: "Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet". Over the internet, you can get data storage, computing power, networking, and analytics from a company that can host all of the computing infrastructure for you. The cloud symbol being used to represent computing has been a thing since the year 1977 when a cloud symbol was used to represent networking of computers for ARPANET (the first wide-area packet-switched network and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite of communication protocols). In this case, the cloud was used as a metaphor for the Internet and the cloud-symbol was used to show a network of electronic devices communicating with one another. The term cloud was officially used to refer to platforms for distributed computing (computing where a software system is shared among multiple computers) as early as 1993 when Apple and AT&T used it to describe Telescript technologies. AT&T described it like this:
By Tyler McFadden3 years ago in 01
Augusta Savage
When Augusta Savage arrived in New York at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, she only had a few dollars in her pocket. However, she quickly found herself in the company of the prominent writers and activists of the 1920s, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. Savage joined them while simultaneously combating poverty and racism. A plaster edition of Savage’s well-known Gamin was offered in the Two-Day Fine Art, Antique, & Jewelry Auction, presented by Case Antiques.
By Grace White3 years ago in 01
Platform as a Service History
PaaS, or platform as a service to use the full name, is a type of cloud computing. In fact, it is one of three types of cloud computing: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. PaaS is a type of cloud computing that, according to Wikipedia, "allows customers to provision, instantiate, run, and manage a modular bundle comprising a computing platform and one or more applications, without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching the application(s); and to allow developers to create, develop, and package such software bundles." Basically, infrastructure is provided over the internet that allows you to build and maintain applications for yourself or whatever company you are designing the application for. There are three well-known ways for cloud computing service providers to give their customers a PaaS service:
By Tyler McFadden3 years ago in 01
History of Software as a Service Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is seen as an interesting new emerging technology, but cloud computing has actually been around for decades in the form of software-as-a-service or SaaS for short. Now, SaaS is a form of software licensing and delivery where software is centrally hosted over the internet for others to use and usually licensed on a subscription basis. As techradar.com puts it in an article written by Brian Turner, “SaaS, is a cloud-based service where instead of downloading software your desktop PC or business network to run and update, you instead access an application via an internet browser. The software application could be anything from office software to unified communications among a wide range of other business apps that are available.”
By Tyler McFadden3 years ago in 01